CN to serve new frac sand producer

By Catie Fry |Tuesday, December 10, 2013

CN Railroad said Tuesday it will start serving a new frac sand producer on its Wisconsin rail network in December.
The production facility of Source Energy Services in Weyerhaeuser, Wis., will have an annual production capacity of 1.2 million tons of high-grade sands, rising to 2 million tons by the third quarter of 2014.
CN has 11 frac sand facilities on its network in Wisconsin. These industrial sands are used by the oil and gas industry in the hydraulic fracturing process to hold shale fractures open to let natural gas and oil flow out.